This projected twelve-volume series transcribes the Applications for Enrollment of Creek Newborn, National Archive film M-1301 (Act of 1905), as described in the National Archives publication American Indians. These applications represent one component of the larger body of applications for Enrollment of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914 (Dawes Commission). Under the terms of the Dawes Allotment Act of February 8, 1887, which established the Commission and had the effect of breaking up the Five Civilized Tribes as social units, parcels of land within the Indian Territory were to be awarded to Native Americans according to their degree of Indian blood, age, and family status. The term "newborn" referred to each Creek individual living within a qualified Creek (or other tribal) household who was four years of age or less and not an orphan--up to the time that the President awarded the land allotments. Under this definition each Creek newborn was to receive forty acres of Indian Territory. The importance of the original Creek applications found in M-1301 and transcribed in this series is that they contain more information and establish family relationships not found on the census cards in National Archive film M-1186, the basis for the seminal title Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory [and] Index to the Final Rolls. Mr. Bowen's transcriptions include all correspondence associated with the 1,171 successful Creek claimants. Besides the names of all parents and "newborns," the applications include the names of doctors, lawyers, midwives, and other Creek relatives whose identities were divulged as part of the application process, and who attended to the Creek Nation before and during this time in history.--From publisher website.

Applications for Enrollment of Creek Newborn. Act of 1905. Volume X

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This projected twelve-volume series transcribes the Applications for Enrollment of Creek Newborn, National Archive film M-1301 (Act of 1905), as described in the National Archives publication American Indians. These applications represent one component of the larger body of applications for Enrollment of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914 (Dawes Commission). Under the terms of the Dawes Allotment Act of February 8, 1887, which established the Commission and had the effect of breaking up the Five Civilized Tribes as social units, parcels of land within the Indian Territory were to be awarded to Native Americans according to their degree of Indian blood, age, and family status. The term "newborn" referred to each Creek individual living within a qualified Creek (or other tribal) household who was four years of age or less and not an orphan--up to the time that the President awarded the land allotments. Under this definition each Creek newborn was to receive forty acres of Indian Territory. The importance of the original Creek applications found in M-1301 and transcribed in this series is that they contain more information and establish family relationships not found on the census cards in National Archive film M-1186, the basis for the seminal title Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory [and] Index to the Final Rolls. Mr. Bowen's transcriptions include all correspondence associated with the 1,171 successful Creek claimants. Besides the names of all parents and "newborns," the applications include the names of doctors, lawyers, midwives, and other Creek relatives whose identities were divulged as part of the application process, and who attended to the Creek Nation before and during this time in history.--From publisher website.

Applications for Enrollment of Creek Newborn. Act of 1905. Volume XI

Applications for Enrollment of Choctaw Newborn@@ Act of 1905. Volume XVIII

Applications for Enrollment of Chickasaw Newborn, Act of 1905. Volume II

Applications for Enrollment of Chickasaw Newborn, Act of 1905. Volume III

Applications for Enrollment of Chickasaw Newborn, Act of 1905. Volume IV

Applications for Enrollment of Chickasaw Newborn Act of 1905 Volume V

Applications for Enrollment of Chickasaw Newborn, Act of 1905. Volume V

Mr. Bowen devoted to the enrollment of "Newborn" members of the Five Civilized Tribes under the Dawes Act. Previous series have covered Cherokee, Seminole, and Choctaw Newborn. The Applications for Enrollment of Chickasaw Newborn, Act of 1905, are found in National Archive film M-1301, Rolls 455-458, under the heading of Applications for Enrollment of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes. These applications contain considerably more information than stated on the census cards found in series M-1186. The governing 1905 statute (H.R. 17474) defined Chickasaw Newborn as "infant children born prior to September twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and two, and who were living on said date, to citizens by blood of the . . . Chickasaw . . . ." It also authorized the Department of the Interior to enroll and make allotments to such children based on applications received on their behalf no later than May 2, 1905. (At the time, the Interior Department estimated that the statute would cause about 1,500 Newborns to be added to the Chickasaw Rolls.) Like their Choctaw counterparts, the Chickasaw allotments were among the most sought after properties in Indian Territory. There was supposed to be a 25-year restriction on the sale or lease of any Indian lands so as to ensure that the owners wouldn t be swindled; however, the presence of huge asphalt and coal deposits in both the Choctaw and Chickasaw Districts elicited pressure from private interests to purchase the lands. On April 26, 1906, President Roosevelt signed the Five Tribes Bill removing some of the restrictions from the sale of all inherited land but continuing to prohibit full-bloods from selling their land for 25 years. Mr. Bowen s faithful transcriptions of the Chickasaw Newborn applications provide the names of the applicants and their relatives, as well as the identities of all others--doctors, lawyers, midwives, etc.-- named in the applications. Volume VI identifies roughly an additional 2,000 persons associated with the Chickasaw Newborn.

Applications for Enrollment of Chickasaw Newborn, Act of 1905. Volume VI

Reference

Genealogy

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Cherokee Intermarried White, 1906. Volume I

Cherokee Intermarried White

Cherokee Intermarried White 1906 Volume II

Cherokee Intermarried White, 1906. Volume II

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